Seven McDonald

Everybody here LOves Bingo. See for yourself. That gray-haired man carrying his newspaper: "Hi! Bingo." Those three cool rocker girls with their cell phones out: "Hey, Bingo!" That cute N.Y.-looking couple wearing blazers and holding hands, they’re all crazy for Bingo. "He has definitely helped business," says 30-year-old bleached blond......

Sean Cooley, Andrea Buchanan, Kathlyn Horan, Denise Plumb and Gabrielle Grant just finished editing their new documentary this afternoon, narrowly making the deadline for the Sundance submission by a few hours. Now, sitting in their Craftsman-style, Sunset Boulevard office, surrounded by boxes of T-shirts, the filmmakers drink Diet Coke and......

Photo by Jack Gould BEING THE PROGENY of a famous parent isn’t always easy. For one thing, the press makes all sorts of assumptions about you. Singer-songwriter Tiffany Anders, the 34-year-old daughter of independent filmmaker Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca), says most writers imply that her mother’s......

NATHANAEL WEST ONCE WROTE that the retired people who flock to Los Angeles for its sunshine and oranges are “savage and bitter” because they “haven’t the mental equipment for leisure, the money nor the physical equipment for pleasure.” Six-foot-3 actor-writer Jason Hall, who originally hails from Lake Arrowhead, has the......

Sprawled under a tree on the Cal State Northridge campus, 22-year-old Eric Eisenhammer is reeling from a successful day of activism. This afternoon, near the university’s poli-sci orientation, he and several members of his embryonic political group exceeded their own expectations by recruiting 15 members and registering three new voters......

This is a love story about how two people can be brought together by a city they don’t particularly like. “Ironically enough, we met in the building on Hollywood Boulevard that says, ‘I Love L.A.,’” says Diana Hulet, a pretty 33-year-old actress/yoga teacher, who spent time working as a shop......

Shana Lutker, 26, is presently taking a paring knife to a large slab of doggie-treat dough, which she has enhanced with a couple ladles full of pork-rib drippings and molded into the shape of our president’s tight-lipped face. “I can’t believe I think I can freehand George Bush’s face,” she......

Travis Keller isn’t making too many deep bros these days. Consider that the moment he walked into the 101 Coffee Shop in Hollywood the other day, several former friends and music people shot him hate stares from their booth. Recently, they threatened to beat him up. “It’s a curse,” says......

Sitting on the red-painted curb by the pay phones at the 76 station on Hollywood and Bronson, 21-year-old Greg is sipping from a Coke can. His elbows have resigned themselves to his Dickies-clad knees, and that dejected look he is wearing can’t quiet the excitement in his blue, sleepy eyes......